Regulating Utilities in an Era of Deregulation

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction to Regulating Utilities in an Era of Deregulation....Pages 1-5
Productivity Incentives and Rate-of-Return Regulation ....Pages 7-23
Regulatory Policy Under Uncertainty: How Should the Earned Rate of Return for a Public Utility be Controlled?....Pages 25-41
Governance Costs of Regulation for Water Supply....Pages 43-62
Public Utility Equity Financing Practices: A Test of Market Efficiency....Pages 63-76
Ramsey Pricing in Telecommunications Markets with Free Entry....Pages 77-83
An Analysis of Ramsey Pricing in Electric Utilities....Pages 85-109
An Analysis of Pricing and Production Efficiency of Electric Utilities by Mode of Ownership....Pages 111-136
Residential Electricity Demand Modelling with Secret Data....Pages 137-154
A Life-cycle Study of Commercial Cogeneration/Cooling: a State-of-the-art of Gas Technology....Pages 155-170
Estimation and Linking of Ecomomic and Financial Costs in Telecommunications....Pages 171-196
Back Matter....Pages 197-201